Writings by Topic: Democracy and Islam
Articles by MEF Staff and Fellows
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Title |
Publication |
Date |
No to the Planned Palestinian Elections |
The Jerusalem Post | January 15, 2020 |
Eternal Jihad: Islam Will Never, Ever Stop |
American Thinker | October 23, 2018 |
Kurdistan Region in Iraq Goes to Polls a Year after Independence Vote |
Jerusalem Post | October 2, 2018 |
Socialists Back Islamist-Linked Muslim Candidates in Michigan Primaries |
The Federalist | August 13, 2018 |
Saudi Arabia and Canada: Why Is the Kingdom Losing Support in the West? |
Jerusalem Post | August 6, 2018 |
Europe's Most Important Politicians in 2018 (so Far) |
The Washington Times | August 1, 2018 |
Turkey: New System, Old One-Man Show |
BESA Center | July 30, 2018 |
Did Someone Say 'An Apartheid State'? |
Sigma Insight Turkey | July 24, 2018 |
Islamists With Ties To Terror Lobby Congress |
FrontPage Magazine | May 4, 2018 |
The Turkish Referendum: A Turning Point? |
BESA Center Perspectives | April 20, 2017 |
Turks Vote to Give Away Their Democracy |
The Gatestone Institute | April 18, 2017 |
Turkey's Democracy Deficit |
The Gatestone Institute | August 11, 2016 |
Erdoğan's One-Man Islamist Show |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2016 |
Tunisia's Fragile Post-Revolutionary Order |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2016 |
Turkey's Stockholm Syndrome |
The Gatestone Institute | November 8, 2015 |
What Turkey's Elections Will NOT Change |
The Gatestone Institute | October 29, 2015 |
Erdoğan Leads Turkey to the Precipice |
The Australian | October 17, 2015 |
The Turkish Press's New Normal |
The Gatestone Institute | October 4, 2015 |
Turkey's Thaw with Israel Could Be Short-Lived |
The Gatestone Institute | September 21, 2015 |
Turkey: Hope and Fear |
The Huffington Post | June 23, 2015 |
Post-Election Turkey: Now What? |
The Gatestone Institute | June 11, 2015 |
An End to the 'Era of Oppression' in Turkey? |
The Gatestone Institute | June 8, 2015 |
Turkey's Unimportant Election |
The Washington Times | June 5, 2015 |
Will Turkey Go the Way of Weimar Germany? |
The Gatestone Institute | May 2, 2015 |
Erdoğan's Western Enablers |
Hürriyet Daily News | February 18, 2015 |
Why a 'Turkish Tsipras' is an Oxymoron |
Hürriyet Daily News | January 30, 2015 |
Legitimate and Illegitimate Dictators |
Hürriyet Daily News | November 26, 2014 |
What Egypt's President Sisi Really Thinks |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2014 |
The Forgotten Secular Turkish Model |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2013 |
Better Dictators than Elected Islamists |
The Washington Times | December 11, 2012 |
Muslim Brotherhood 'Democracy' |
Investigative Project on Terrorism | July 9, 2012 |
Egyptian Election: Islamist Victory or Deceptive Strategy? |
Gatestone Institute | June 19, 2012 |
Moderate Indonesia? |
The American Spectator | June 6, 2012 |
Are Iraq and Turkey Models for Democratization? |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2012 |
Voting in Egypt as 'Holy War' |
Gatestone Institute | May 22, 2012 |
Jihad: When Elections Fail |
Jihad Watch | January 26, 2012 |
Is an Egyptian "Democracy" a Good Thing? |
Hudson New York | February 16, 2011 |
Anoush Ehteshami and Democracy in Egypt |
The Economist | February 8, 2011 |
Islam and Democracy - Much Hard Work Needed |
National Post | February 7, 2011 |
Why Egypt Will Not Soon Become Democratic |
The Economist | February 4, 2011 |
Hala Mustafa and the Liberal Arab Predicament |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2010 |
'Lawfare' gains ground |
Washington Times | May 19, 2009 |
Arab Democracy and American Policy |
MEF Policy Forum | February 25, 2009 |
The Islamist Role in the 2008 Canadian Elections |
American Thinker | November 8, 2008 |
Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP, and Secularism |
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly | July 2008 |
The Case Against Turkey's Ruling Party |
The American | June 20, 2008 |
Turkey's Putin Deserves to Go |
Wall Street Journal | June 6, 2008 |
Turkish Secularism Is Democratic |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
The Economics of Democracy in Muslim Countries |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
Turkey's Uncertain Future |
The American | April 30, 2008 |
A Democratic Islam? |
Jerusalem Post | April 17, 2008 |
Turkey and Democracy |
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly | March 2008 |
Are Muslim Countries Less Democratic? |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2007 |
Naser Khader and Flemming Rose: Reflections on the Danish Cartoon Controversy |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2007 |
Ban Islam? |
New York Sun | August 29, 2007 |
Can There Be an Islamic Democracy? |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2007 |
Does Prime Minister Erdoğan Accept Turkish Secularism? |
Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2007 |
Fight for Mideast democracy faltering |
Philadelphia Inquirer | July 14, 2006 |
Debate: "Democracy Is about More Than Elections" |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
Quantifying Arab Democracy |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
Democratize but Stabilize |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
Will U.S. Democratization Policy Work? |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
[The Hamas electoral victory:] Democracy's bitter fruit |
National Post | January 27, 2006 |
Don't deal with terrorists |
USA Today | January 25, 2006 |
The Freedom Crusade, Revisited: A Symposium |
National Interest | Winter 2005/06 |
All the Wrong Reasons |
Private Papers | November 13, 2005 |
Defending and Advancing Freedom |
Commentary | November 2005 |
Can Hezbollah and Hamas Be Democratic? |
New York Sun | March 22, 2005 |
A Neo-Conservative's Caution |
New York Sun | March 8, 2005 |
Indonesian Democracy vs. Islamist Fundamentalism |
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 10, 2004 |
Is an Iraqi Strongman Emerging? |
New York Sun | May 4, 2004 |
Bush the radical |
Jerusalem Post | November 12, 2003 |
Debate: Islam and Democracy |
PBS "Wide Angle" | July 15, 2003 |
A Strongman for Iraq? |
New York Post | April 28, 2003 |
Want Democracy? Get a King |
Middle East Quarterly | December 2000 |
Are Today's Islamic Movements Compatible with Democracy? |
Insight | August 14, 2000 |
Can Democracy Prevail? |
Middle East Quarterly | March 2000 |
There Are No Moderates: Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam |
National Interest | Fall 1995 |
Islam and Democracy: Rejoinder |
Middle East Quarterly | December 1994 |
On Democracy |
Middle East Quarterly | September 1994 |
Why Turkey Is the only Muslim Democracy |
Middle East Quarterly | March 1994 |
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